Transcending disadvantage: life-histories of learners at a township school in South Africa
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Date
2008
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University of the Western Cape
Abstract
This is a study of the discourses of empowerment and disempowerment that emerge from the critical discourse analysis (CDA) of life-histories written by two classes of Grade 11 high school learners in a township school in Cape Town, South Africa. The line of argument presented by this thesis is that there are political, socio-economic, familial and institutional factors and the discourses that construct them which affect learners’ resilience.
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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD
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Discourses of empowerment, Discourses of disempowerment, Grade 11 high school learners, Township school in Cape Town, South Africa